Bettye and her band last appeared in London in Nov. 2003 at Union Chapel:
BLUES LONDON

Blues London
7 November 2003

(Bettye LaVette stood in for Koko Taylor who was unable to appear due to illness.)
 

"Ms LaVette has taken the blues and soul world by storm the last several years. Acclaimed by those in the know as the greatest unrecognized soul singer in the last 40 years, Ms LaVette was named the "No. 1 Artist Deserving More Attention" by critics in the Sept/Oct 2003 edition of Living Blues Magazine.


She appeared to sell out audiences at the Chicago Blues Festival in 2002. Ms LaVette was born Betty Haskin and recorded her first single for Lupine back in 1962 (when she was only sixteen).

She went on to produce a string of singles on labels as well known as Atlantic, Epic and Motown throughout the 1970s, though she never released a full length album.


Ms LaVette's new CD "A Woman Like Me" has wowed the critics across American including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Village Voice, the New York Times, Blues Revue, Living Blues and many other."

Bettye appears on the cover of the UK soul magazine, Chatbusters.

"The Front Page shows the great Bettye LaVette in Concert at the Blackpool Winter Gardens 2002."

Fantastic photos taken by Dave Leedham and featuing Bettye in conversation with Rik Williams.